Gadget watch: The phone which would be king – any other year

There’s a scale when it comes to smartphones. By any reasonable measure, the S10+ is a phenomenal device that would, in reasonable times, be the market leader.

But we don’t live in reasonable times. No, instead we have Huawei putting out a phone so powerful in the P30 Pro that it’s forcing rival manufacturers to think a few generations ahead.

Had this corner been given the specs for the S10+ in 2017 and ...